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Section 1031: THEATRE the Handbook for One-Act Play Section 1031: THEATRE The Handbook for One-Act Play Directors, Critic Judges and Contest Managers and A Guide for UIL One- Act Play Contest Managers are prepared in order that all might be encouraged to achieve the purposes of the One-Act Play Contest and to make it a more meaningful, creative and educational experience for all participants. The current handbooks are available from the League office and are essential for all involved in the One-Act Play Contest. Addendums are posted on the UIL website. Directors, judges and contest managers should read articles and notices related to One-Act Play posted in the Leaguer. The Leaguer is located on the UIL website and is updated weekly, although new One-Act Play notices may not be posted every week. Directors, judges and contest managers should check regularly and take special note of information found in the “Academic” and “Official Notices” sections. Section 1032: THE DRAMA LOAN LIBRARY (a) PURPOSE. The Drama Loan Library is maintained primarily to assist Texas play directors in the selection of their scripts. (b) PLAY SELECTION. Scripts may be borrowed by any faculty member of a member Texas public school system and by members of the Texas Educational Theatre Association Adjudicators Organization (TETAAO). Up to ten reading playscripts may be borrowed for three weeks by using the checkout form found on the UIL website or by submitting the request on school letterhead. The borrower’s school is held responsible for all borrowed materials. Additional materials will be available once the original order is properly cleared. A postage and handling fee shall accompany each order. The current fee structure is found on the UIL website. (c) APPROVED PUBLISHERS. The current list of approved publishers is found on the UIL website. Section 1033: ONE-ACT PLAY CONTEST See Official Interpretation #14, Appendix I. (a) AIMS. (1) To foster appreciation of good acting, good directing and good theatre. (2) To satisfy the competitive, artistic spirit with friendly rivalry among schools, emphasizing high quality performance in this creative art. (3) To learn to lose or win graciously, accepting in good sportsmanship the judge’s decision and criticism with a view to improve future productions. (4) To promote interest in theatre during adult life. (5) To increase the number of schools which have adopted theatre arts as an academic subject in school curricula. (b) CONTEST ENTRY PROCEDURES. (1) Representation. Each participant high school of the League is entitled to enter a play company in the district contest of its appropriate conference. (2) Student Eligibility. Only high school students eligible under Subchapter M are eligible for the high school contest. There is no amateur rule for this contest. (3) Faculty Director. (A) Each school shall be allowed a maximum of three directors. The names of those directors shall be entered online and be listed on the program. (B) Directors in the One-Act Play Contest shall be full-time employees of the school districts the plays represent. Full-time means that the person is under contract to the school board for the whole scholastic or calendar year and the person has enough contractual duties to be considered a full-time employee by the Teacher Retirement System and state law. (i) A retired teacher or administrator who has 20 or more years of experience may be hired and paid for directing the one-act play. (ii) Student teachers, during the semester they are assigned to a participant school district to fulfill their student teaching requirements, may volunteer, pro bono, to assist in directing their contest play and may serve as one of the three directors allowed. (iii) A full-time substitute who has directed one-act play during the school year may be permitted to continue through the State One-Act Play Contest. (C) Directors shall not accept nor solicit aid in the preparation of the play, or in coaching the actors, or in designing props, makeup, costumes, scenery, lighting or in directing the contest play. Violations of this rule may result in the school and/or director being subject to the full range of penalties outlined in Sections 27 and 29. (i) A critic judge may be used at a contest or festival so long as three or more casts participate at the same site on the same day. Each session shall include a performance of the play and shall not exceed two hours. (ii) Companies are limited to a maximum of four sessions at non-UIL One-Act Play contests or festivals during each school year. (iii) No more than three sessions at non-UIL One-Act Play contests or festivals are permitted during school days. (iv) Companies are restricted to no more than two sessions with the same clinician per school year. (4) Enrollment and Participation. Schools desiring to enter this contest shall enroll via the UIL One-Act Play online entry system by midnight October 1. (A) Approval for late enrollment requires a majority consent by the district executive committee or the spring meet district director, if authorized. See Section 902 (g) (1) (C). (B) Participation shall be defined as a performance of an approved script with a running time of not less than eighteen minutes. A school that fails to participate in the One- Act Play Contest after enrolling shall be subject to the full range of penalties, including suspension from the One-Act Play Contest for the following year. Schools who fail to participate shall file a written report to the State Executive Committee stating their reasons for not doing so. The contest manager shall report violations of this rule to the State Theatre Director. Schools who perform but fail to meet the minimum time of eighteen minutes shall not be included in the final rankings, be selected as an advancing play or be eligible for acting awards. (5) Zones, Bi-districts and Areas. (A) When nine or more schools are participating in the district one-act play contest, the district executive committee may divide the district into zones consisting of four or more participating schools. Zoning may only be determined by random draw or geographical boundaries. (B) Bi-district contests shall be organized by the District Executive Committees. (C) Area assignments shall be made when more than four districts of a conference in any region have entries in one-act play. (6) Awards and Qualification for Participation in a Higher Contest. (A) Team Awards. Three unranked advancing plays and an alternate shall be selected at zone, district, bi-district, and area levels. Two unranked advancing plays and an alternate shall be selected at the regional level. Plays at the state level shall be ranked through third place. (B) Individual Awards. Individual awards shall include the best actress, best actor, all- star cast and honorable mention all-star cast. The number in the all-star cast shall equal the size of the average size cast participating in the contest, not to exceed eight performers. An honorable mention all-star cast, not to exceed the size of the all-star cast, may be selected at the discretion of the judge or judges. (C) Points. The schedule of points for sweepstakes is found in Section 902 (m). (D) Certification of Advancing Plays; Substitutions. The district academic chair shall certify the advancing plays via the Spring Meet Entry System no later than midnight Monday following the day of the district contest. The regional academic director shall certify the advancing plays via the Spring Meet Entry System no later than midnight Monday following the day of the regional contest. Substitutions may be made in cast, crew or alternates up to the time of the contest. See Section 902 (g) (1) (B). These substitutions shall be entered in the online system by the academic director at each level of competition prior to certifying results. (7) Dates and Deadlines. (A) Failure to Meet a Deadline. A school that fails to meet the enrollment, title entry or eligibility deadline requires a majority consent by the appropriate executive committee or the meet director, if authorized, in order to participate. See Section 902 (g) (1) (C). (B) Request for Play Approval Deadline. All requests for permission to produce plays not on the approved lists, together with any requests to use scenic elements not permissible under contest rules for that same play, shall be postmarked, sent via courier or hand-delivered to the League’s Play Appraisal Committee no later than December 21. A single reading/set approval fee shall accompany each request. The current fee structure is found on the UIL website. (C) Request to Use Scenic Elements Not Permissible Under Contest Rules. All requests to use scenic elements that are not permissible under contest rules for plays on the approved lists shall be postmarked, sent via courier or hand-delivered to the League, no later than December 21. Items (i)-(iv) of Section 1033 (c) (2) (G) shall be included. The request shall include an evaluation fee. The current fee structure is found on the UIL website. (D) Title Entry Deadline. The title of the play selected for contest use shall be registered online no later than midnight February 23. The title of the play may be changed after the entry deadline due to illness, academic ineligibility or other reasons deemed justified by the State Theatre Director. (E) Zone, district, bi-district, area or regional play contests may be scheduled at times separate from other League contests as long as they do not deviate from the official calendar’s designated weeks for One-Act Play meets. Early scheduling requires written approval from the UIL Director of Academics.
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